On June 1st the 1921 Canada census passed into public domain in the care of the Library and Archives Canada (LAC). I’ve been waiting a long time for this release as have many others researching their Canadian families. According to LAC the 1921 census will be made available in the next few weeks. I have many family members to look […]

Organizing your digital files is so important. It is so easy to misplace important files in the abyss of your hard drive! Not to mention having your files properly organized makes it so much easier to back up your data to the cloud or an external hard drive for safe keeping. When I first started adding my genealogy records […]

I am a huge Evernote fan and I’ve used it daily for the past few years. I’ve found it to be a wonderful help when I’m researching. I can clip webpages, forum comments, images and make notes for the person or area I’m researching. Evernote does have a flaw that I’ve had many genealogy friends […]

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